Hi, I’m Daniel Palacios, an artist from the south of Spain, and I have a severe case of too many interests to care about the benefits of specialization. That’s it, I said it.

After years of moving between cities, including a decade in Berlin, I’m currently based in Málaga. Moving the studio now requires two full trailers, so I don’t take it as lightly these days, though knowing my track record I wouldn’t rule it out either.
I started with an interest in science, product design, and architecture, but formally trained in Fine Arts. Later, I finished postgraduate studies in Art & Technology, Art in the Public Sphere, and Multimedia Production. That mix didn’t produce a style, but a way of thinking where materials and making are a form of understanding, and where the format of the result matters less than the logic behind it.
A personal research
My work starts with observation, literally. Watching how people behave, how space responds to presence, how time alters matter. An exploration of the underlying tensions that structure how we perceive and interact with the world, and what they reveal when made tangible. When something ordinary catches my attention, a detail that’s overlooked simply because it has always been that way, I follow it looking for the logic behind it, the behavior that produces what we end up experiencing.
Each project begins with a system that’s in the background and asks what happens if you give it its own shape. The gap between what we think we see and what’s actually there is where the work lives.
Getting it done
Early on, I learned that complex ideas tend to collapse when execution is fragmented. So I took a different approach: staying involved from concept through fabrication, treating design, engineering, and production as parts of the same thinking process rather than sequential handoffs.
When you understand how something is made, you make different decisions about what it should be. The studio has the infrastructure of a production company and the working logic of an artist’s workshop. That combination is deliberate, and genuinely difficult to find elsewhere.
Reaching across fields
My work has been shown in museums, festivals, and art fairs across Europe, Asia, and America, including CAAC, MEIAC, ZKM, NAMOC, Ars Electronica, FILE, Science Gallery, LABoral, VOLTA and ARCO. It is part of public collections such as the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, the London Science Museum and CosmoCaixa Barcelona.
I’ve collaborated with brands such as Nike, Adidas, Nissan, Yamaha, Verizon and Mustang, and developed projects for agencies including Hyperquake, Unit9 and Liganova, as well as design studios like Jorge Herrera or Lago Interioriza, and architectural practices like David Chipperfield Architects.
Represented Spain at the International Triennial of Media Art during the Beijing Olympics and received several international awards, including two VIDA Art and Artificial Life prizes. Did residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and FAAP Casa Lutetia in São Paulo, among others. And my work has been featured in Leonardo (MIT Press), Art + Science Now, Art contemporain nouveaux médias, Beyond the Display and other books and publications.